Wind-shield for carriages.



No. 778,330. l PATBNTED DEG. 27, 1904.

' G. A. POND.

l.WJLND SHIELD FOR GARRIAGBS,

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 23, i904.

Iwan/27" Law y UNITED STATES Patented December 27, 1904.

'PATENT OFFICE.V

GILBERT A. POND, OF OHIOAGO, ILLINOIS.

WIND-SHIELD lF-F ACAFFlAlC-IES..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters APatent No. 778,330, dated December 2 7, 1904. 4pplicatioh ledIebruary 23, 1904. Serial No. 194,626.

To all whom, it muy con/067%;

Be it known that I, GILBERT A. POND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wind-Shields for Carriagos, of which the followingis a cornplete specification. V

This invention relates to wind-shields for hooded or top buggies or carriages, and particularly for childrens carriages; andthe object of the invention is to provide for conipletely shielding the occupant of the carriage from the wind without interfering to any Inaterial extent with his vision,'also to provide such a wind and weather shield in aform which will enable it to be rolled up when not in use and which, while possessed of suliicient rigidity to substantially maintain its shape when in use, shall at the same time be flexible enough to prevent its being readily broken.

To lthese endsy theinvention contemplates a Y flexible transparent wind-shield consisting,

substantially, of a sheet of Celluloid or similar transparent flexible material made of such shape as to properly inclose the open front of the carriage hood or top without cramping or seriously interfering with the seating-space within the hood.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of my invention in kone form, Figure l is a perspective view of a carriage provided with a hooded top and showing one of my iexible` transparent wind-shields as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wind-shield alone, showing the same in the position which it occupies when in use.

The carriage C illustrated in this instance is a childs gO-cart of familiar type; but any other style of carriage having a hooded top H may equally well be used in this connection, and this whether such hooded top is a solid hood or is of the folding or collapsible variety like that of the ordinary top-buggy. rl`he liexible transparent wind-shield S, which constitutes the present invention, is secured over the front of the hooded top H and completes, as it were, the protecting-inclosure formed thereby. A suitable material for this wind-shield S should be so transparent that it does not interfere with the entrance of light or restrict the vision of the child occupying the carriageand so flexible that it may be easily conformed to the outline of the hood and will be free from Aany such brittleness or rigidity as will render itliable to shatter under a blow or to cut orfinjure the child in case Vit is shattered or ruptured. fAt the same time it should be free from any such cloth-like llimpness as` would require itsk being stretched between opposing supports in order to main- `tain its shape or would render it liable to iutter in* thefwind; but, on the contrary, it should ,have suiiicient inherent rigidity and stiffness to enable'it to maintain its substantial shape, evenunder considerable pressure, independently in large degree of the manner in which the shield is secured to the carriage. Ordinary transparent sheet-celluloid admirably'T fulfils these conditionsand is preferred for the purpose.

In` making the wind-shield Itake a sheetof such a transparent flexible material thick enough to properly maintain its shape when applied to the carriage and bend it into suitable form to inclose the front and sides Of lthe carriage top or hood. This will usually involve the provision of a substantially rec` tangular middle portion or panel l and at each of its sides a substantially triangular wing 2. The upper edge of the middle panel or section l is designed to closely engage the upper front edge of the carriage-hood and will preferably be provided with some suitableJ means for fastening it to the hood at this point, such as metal clips 3, designed to hook over the-front edge of the hood, this being a particularly satisfactory arrangement where the edge of the hood is made with a roll 4, as is quite commonly'the case. The rear edges 5 of the trangular sides 2 of the shield will then extend downwardly along the side edges of the hood, so as to form, in effect,a continuation of the same, and suitable fastening devices will desirably be provided along these edges or at the lower end thereof, a convenient fastening for this purpose being one which is located at the lower rear corner or apex of each triangular side, and may take the form of a hook 5, which can be hooked into any one of a number of holes 6 in the Celluloid and which is linked to a ring 7, that can be passed around the adjacent pivot-bolt 8, which secures the hood to the carriage. Other fastenings may also be provided between suitable parts of the carriage top or body and the hood; but for ordinary purposes the method of fastening described will be suiiicient to hold the shield in proper position. This position is well illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings, from which it will be seen that the shield extends downwardly and forwardly from the upper edge of the hood to a point which will ordinarily be several inches or afoot in front of the hood and may be about on a level of the hinge-bolts 8, which support the latter.

With a carriage of the style herein illustrated the lower front end of the shield will thus reach over the top of the swinging front 0, which corresponds to the dashboard of an ordinary buggy, and as the space below the edge of the shield and within this swinging front will ordinarily be substantially lilled by the childs blankets and wraps the shield and hood together will practically exclude all wind from the carriage and will of course keep out the rain or snow as well.

A protecting-binding 9, of leather or the like, will desirably be stitched or otherwise secured along the edges of the celluloid, but will not interfere with the necessary flexibility of the shield, which when removed from the carriage can be rolled up into small compass for storage or shipment.

It will be perceived that an important feature lies in making the shield flexible substantially throughout in order that it may be readily adapted to the varying peculiarlyshaped openings between the hoods and the bodies of the various makes of carriages on the'market. Another advantage of making the shield flexible throughout is that it may consist of a unitary structure as distinguished from a shield constructed of two or more folding sections; but by unitary structure it will of course be understood that I do not mean that it need necessarily be constructed of a single sheet of material, however desirable it may be to construct it of one piece, as it is possible to construct the shield of more than one sheet of material without departing from the invention.

I clairn as my invention-w 1. As a new article of manufacture, a windshield for baby-carriages, consisting of thin transparent material made stiiiiy flexible substantially throughout and adapted for detachable attachment to a baby-carriage, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Q. In combination with a hooded baby-earriage, of a wind-shield therefor consisting of a single sheet of thin transparent material made stiffly iiexible substantially throughout, for the purposes set forth, and fastening devices, substantially as described.

3. A wind-shield `for carriages consisting` Of a sheet of stiiiiy-flexible transparent material formed into a front panel and triangular side panels at each side of the front panel, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a carriage-body and hooded top, of a wind-shield comprising a middle portion of stiliiy-iiexible transparent material extending downwardly from the upper edge of the hood, and side portions of flexible transparent material extending between the sides of the hood and said middle portion of the shield, substantially as described.

5. rIhe combination with a carriage-body and hooded top, of a wind-shield, consisting` of a sheet of stiiii-y-iiexible transparent material comprising a middle portion extending' downwardly from the upper edge of the hood, and side portions extending between the sides of the hood and said middle portion of the shield, substantially as described.

6. A wind-shield for carriages consisting ofa front panel of liexible transparent material, and triangular side panels of stil'lly-llexible transparent material at each side of the front panel, substantially as described.

7 As a new article of manufacture, a windguard for baby-carriages consisting of a thin unitary transparent structure made stilily iiexible substantially throughout and provided with means for detachably securing it to the hood and the body of the carriage.

8. In combination with a hooded baby-carriage, of a wind-shield consisting of a unitary transparent structure stiliiy flexible substantially throughout, and means for securing` it detachably to the carriage, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I ai'iix my signature, in presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of February, A. D. 1904.

GILBERT A. PON l).

Witnesses:

HENRY IV. CARTER, R. A. COSTELLO.

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